The deal would give Fusion-io control of the development of the open source SCST stack, and David Flynn, chairman and CEO of Fusion-io, said the company plans to continue supporting the open source community.

"The SCST stack is a default part of Linux," Flynn told CRN. "Anyone writing a storage operating system from Linux would contract with ID7 for commercial support. The SCST stack ships with Linux by default. But if you build storage systems, you generally use the commercial version. You don't want it to be buggy."